On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Diwakar Shetty wrote:
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> I could understand the use of "&" in URL for HTTP requests
> "&" separates the <name>=<value> pair
>
> However, what is the use of ";" in URLS ?
Some people use the semicolon in static links to CGI scripts instead of
the ampersand so that they don't have to escape the ampersand in
attributes (e.g. in <a href="..."> in HTML).
Other than that' it means nothing (as far as I know).
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